Lorcán Black

Lorcán Black is an Irish writer. His poetry has been published in The Tomahawk Review, Stirring, The Rush, Grim&Gilded, New Writing Scotland, The Los Angeles Review, Assaracus & The Stinging Fly, amongst numerous others. He has previously worked as a broadcast journalist as a radio newsreader, a print journalist and now works in higher education.

He is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and has been longlisted for the Black Spring Press Prize and the Two Sylvias Prize, and shortlisted for The Paris Literary Prize.

His first collection, Rituals, was published by April Gloaming Publishing in 2019.

Strange Husbandy is his second poetry collection and a Poetry Book Society recommendation for 2024. It has been nominated for various literary prizes, namely the Forward Prize, Dylan Thomas Prize, the Rooney Prize and Pigott Prize for Poetry respectively. It  was published by Seren Books in 2024.

He lives in London.